IICD Newsletter December 2024

December 02, 2024
IICD Newsletter December 2, 2024  🔬
December 2, 2024
 

Exploring the Intersection of Art and Science: Visualizing Science Symposium
Inspires and Illuminates

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The Visualizing Science Symposium: The Impact of Art on Scientific Discovery, hosted by Columbia Creative and the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, brought together a vibrant mix of scientists, artists, and enthusiasts for a day dedicated to exploring how artistic perspectives can deepen our understanding of science.
 

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2025 IICD SRP: Now Accepting Applications

Flyer for 2025 IICD SRP

The IICD offers a 10-week research opportunity for talented undergraduate students to perform cutting-edge research at the intersection of cancer research and mathematical sciences. Areas of research span from cancer biology to mathematics, computer science, statistical bioinformatics, engineering, and more. Participants will also attend weekly events, such as scientific seminars, workshops, career and professional development events, lab tours, scientific writing/presentation opportunities, etc. Deadline to apply is February 1st, 2025.
 

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IICD Seminar Series: December Seminar

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Towards New Mechanisms to Unleash Targeted Immune Responses 

Hosted by: Sanja Vickovic, PhD
Date: December 4th, 2024 
Time: 2:00 PM (ET)
Location: Schermerhorn Hall 603 and Online

 
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IICD Highlights

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Taruna Neelakantan, a PhD student in Brent Stockwell’s lab, received an IICD travel award to present her study of ferroptosis in immune cells at the Iron, Reactive Oxygen Species & Ferroptosis in Life, Death & Disease Conference last month. 


 
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IICD Associate Member Brent Stockwell recently delivered the XingDa Lecture at Peking University. He co-organized and spoke at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Frontiers in Iron, Reactive Oxygen Species & Ferroptosis in Life, Death & Disease. 


 
Headshot of Ignacio Vasquez-Garcia

Ignacio Vásquez-García, former IICD Postdoc, will join Harvard Medical School in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Pathology. He will also be appointed Assistant Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. 


 
clockwise: headshots of Alessandro Grande, Achille Nazaret, and David Blei

Alessandro Grande, Achille Nazaret, David Blei, and collaborators recently published a NeurIPS 2024 paper introducing a novel method for probabilistic predictions using gradient-boosted trees. Alessandro will present their work at the conference this month.

Recent Publications from IICD Researchers

A Linear Ontogeny Accounts for the Development of Naive, Memory and Tumour-Infiltrating Regulatory T Cells in Mice. Pathak, S.; Hogan, T.; Rane, S.; Huang, Y.; Sinclair, C.; Barry, S.; Carnevalli, L.; Yates, A.; Seddon, B. bioRxiv 2024.

Automated Real-World Data Integration Improves Cancer Outcome Prediction. Jee, J.; Fong, C.; Pichotta, K.; Tran, T. N.; Luthra, A.; Waters, M.; Altoe, M.; Liu, S.-Y.; Maron, S. B.; Ahmed, M.; Kim, S.; Pirun, M.; Chatila, W. K.; de Bruijn, I.; Pasha, A.; Kundra, R.; Gross, B.; Mastrogiacomo, B.; Aprati, T. J.; Liu, D.; Gao, J.; Capelletti, M.; Pekala, K.; Loudon, L.; Perry, M.; Bandlamudi, C.; Donoghue, M.; Satravada, B. A.; Martin, A.; Shen, R.; Chen, Y.; Brannon, A. R.; Chang, J.; Braunstein, L.; Li, A.; Safonov, A.; Stonestrom, A.; Sanchez-Vela, P.; Wilhelm, C.; Robson, M.; Scher, H.; Ladanyi, M.; Reis-Filho, J.S.;  Solit, D. B.; Jones, D. R.; Gomez, D.; Yu, H.; Chakravarty, D.; Yaeger, R.; Abida, W.; Park, W.; O’Reilly, E. M.; Garcia-Aguilar, J.; Socci, N.; Sanchez-Vega, F.; Carrot-Zhang, J.; Stetson, P. D.; Levine, R.; Rudin, C. M.; Berger, M. F.; Shah, S. P.; Schrag, D.; Razavi, P.; Kehl, K. L.; Li, B. T.; Riely, G. J.; Schultz, N.; Lisman, A.; Zhao, G.; de Bruijn, I.; Chatila, W. K.; Li, X.; Kohli, A.; Moore, D.; Lim, R.; Pollard, T.; Sheridan, R.; Wang, A.; Chennault, C.; Wilson, M.; Zhang, H.; Pimienta, R.; Rangavajhala, S.; Subramanian, G.; Garcia, J.; Rachuri, N.; Boehm, K.; Parker, M.; Walch, H.; Nandakumar, S.; Eichholz, J.; Kris, A.; Manca, P.; Bai, X.; Agbamu, T.;  Bi, X; MSK Cancer Data Science Initiative Group Nature 2024, in press.

Estimating the Causal Effects of T Cell Receptors. Weinstein, E. N.; Wood, E. B.; Blei, D. M. arxiv 2024.

Joint Representation and Visualization of Derailed Cell States with Decipher. Nazaret, A.; Fan, J. L.; Lavallée, V.-P.; Burdziak, C.; Cornish, A. E.; Kiseliovas, V.; Bowman, R. L.; Masilionis, I.; Chun, J.; Eisman, S. E.; Wang, J.; Hong, J.; Shi, L.; Levine, R. L.; Mazutis, L.; Blei, D.; Pe’er, D.; Azizi, E. bioRxiv 2024.

Squidiff: Predicting Cellular Development and Responses to Perturbations Using a Diffusion Model. He, S.; Zhu, Y.; Tavakol, D. N.; Ye, H.; Lao, Y.-H.; Zhu, Z.; Xu, C.; Chauhan, S.; Garty, G.; Tomer, R.; Vunjak-Novakovic, G.; Zou, J.; Azizi, E.; Leong, K. W. bioRxiv 2024.

Treeffuser: Probabilistic Predictions via Conditional Diffusions with Gradient-Boosted Trees. Beltran-Velez, N.; Grande, A. A.Nazaret, A.; Kucukelbir, A; Blei, D. arxiv 2024.

Tumour Evolution and Microenvironment Interactions in 2D and 3D Space. Mo, C.-K.; Liu, J.; Chen, S.; Storrs, E.; Targino da Costa, A. L. N.; Houston, A.; Wendl, M. C.; Jayasinghe, R. G.; Iglesia, M. D.; Ma, C.; Herndon, J. M.; Southard-Smith, A. N.; Liu, X.; Mudd, J.; Karpova, A.; Shinkle, A.; Goedegebuure, S. P.; Abdelzaher, A. T. M. A.; Bo, P.; Fulghum, L.; Livingston, S.; Balaban, M.; Hill, A.; Ippolito, J. E.; Thorsson, V.; Held, J. M.; Hagemann, I. S.; Kim, E. H.; Bayguinov, P. O.; Kim, A. H.; Mullen, M. M.; Shoghi, K. I.; Ju, T.; Reimers, M. A.; Weimholt, C.; Kang, L.-I.; Puram, S. V.; Veis, D. J.; Pachynski, R.; Fuh, K. C.; Chheda, M. G.; Gillanders, W. E.; Fields, R. C.; Raphael, B. J.; Chen, F.; Ding, L. Nature 2024, 634 (8036), 1178-1186.

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